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Navy/USMC

Smith Argues For LAW Capabilities And Explains Bridge Experimentation

Thursday, September 8th, 2022

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Smith Argues For LAW Capabilities And Explains Bridge Experimentation

Australia’s Sea Transport Solutions’ stern landing vessel design concept. (Image: Sea Transport Solutions)

The Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps this week explained why the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) capabilities are needed and what the service hopes to learn from experimenting with commercial vessels while procurement was delayed three years. The LAW, also referred to as Landing Ship, Medium, “is absolutely required, up to 35 of them. Those vessels enable the three littoral regiments in the Pacific to move tonight, to immediately move to strategic choke points and strategic locations throughout the battlespace…

Congress

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Unmanned Systems

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